Mastering Julia: Develop your analytical and programming skills further in Julia to solve complex data processing problems - Softcover

Malcolm Sherrington

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783553316 ISBN 13: 9781783553310

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

This hands-on guide is aimed at practitioners in the area of data science. The book assumes some previous skills with Julia and in coding in a scripting language such as Python, Matlab, or R-or otherwise in a compiled language such as C, Fortran, or Java. Experience in specific study areas such as database, networking, statistics, and mathematics is not required.

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About the Author

Dr Malcolm Sherrington has been working in computing for over 35 years. He holds degrees in Mathematics, Chemistry and Engineering and has lectured at two separate universities in the UK as well as working in the Aerospace and Healthcare Industries. Currently he is running his own company working in the Finance sector, with specific interests in High Performance Computing and applications of GPUs and parallelism. Always hands-on, Malcolm started programming scientific problems in Fortran and C, progressing thorough Ada and Common Lisp and recently became involved with data processing and analytics in Perl, Python and R. Malcolm is the organizer of the London Julia User Group, as well as a co-organizer of the UK - High Performance Computing and the Financial Engineers and Quants London meetup groups.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783553316
• ISBN 13: 9781783553310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390